Join us this Tuesday (19th May) for the Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture. Details below 👇

📢 Join us for the Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture 2025. Patrick Quinton-Brown (Singapore Management University) will speak about his book "Intervention before Interventionism". The lecture will take place on 19th May 2026 and it will be hybrid. Further details below 👇

Timely that my chapter on Planetary Socialism 'A Left for the Earth' coincides with the Green surge in the UK (and the latest nail in the coffin for what used to be the social democratic Old Left but now is a strange right of centre nationalist-neoliberal perversion of it) doi.org/10.4324/9781...

📢 Join us for the Sussex International Theory Prize Lecture 2025. Patrick Quinton-Brown (Singapore Management University) will speak about his book "Intervention before Interventionism". The lecture will take place on 19th May 2026 and it will be hybrid. Further details below 👇

Freue mich sehr, dass meine Einführung in die Politische Theorie erschienen ist. Ab sofort erhältlich!

Looks like an interesting addition to aesthetic IR 👇 Movement, Space, and Torture: Exploring Contemporary Dance and Experimental Filmmaking as a Method for International Relations academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

Great to see this piece with Brent Steele, on Indigenous v Western approaches to fire in USA and Australia, published in @gepjournal.bsky.social. We make the case different approaches to fire point to broader & significant differences in relations to nature and place. direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Last year, Professor Roland Bleiker delivered the keynote address at the BISA conference in Belfast. He spoke with our editor Seb Kaempf on the RIS podcast about "seeing and sensing world politics" 🎧 👉 buff.ly/0a9Xs9z

🧳 This week, our @sussexfss.bsky.social International Relations postgraduate students went to sunny Brussels to visit several institutions of the European Union, amongst others the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission, and the European Parliament.

Excited to announce a New Book Launch! “Humanitarianism in the Home: Hosting-at-home and the Politics of Hospitality” by Gabrielle Daoust, and @syndyv.bsky.social Next Tuesday, 2-3.30pm GSRC #humanitarianism #CGI

La rue est une musée pour tous! (Herge)

One week to go (deadline: 4th May) if you want to submit your fabulous books to be considered for the Sussex International Theory Prize 👇

We had a great book launch at CAIT with Afshin Matin-Asgari about his book "Axis of Empire". In case you missed it, the event was recorded and will be made available soon on our Youtube Channel. Find more information about his book here 👇 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Happening tomorrow 👇

Absolutely thrilled about the publication of the new edition of GLOBALE MONARCHIE by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung). Very affordable! The English translation of the book is in progress...: www.bpb.de/shop/buecher... @lsehy.bsky.social @bpb.de

#OpenAccess - Realism, ideology, and exile - https://cup.org/3OnrUbp "This article reconceptualizes the realist relationship with ideology in terms of a recurring experience of ideological exile" - @lefteleven.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

Now online and open access! An autobiographical essay by John Dunn (Cambridge) entitled "The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to everyone who has shared photos of our 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄. campaign across Brighton and beyond. It's helping more people discover what makes Sussex an exciting place to be — celebrating ideas, research, collaboration and the difference we make. Find out more: https://ow.ly/ouqR50YvQ87

Join us on 22nd April, to launch the timely Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–US Relations by Afshin Matin-Asgari (California State University, Los Angeles). The book launch is hybrid and will take place at 5pm. For anyone on campus, please come to Fulton 102. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/axis-of-em...

Want to know the challenges and rewards of a life in academia? Are you a postgrad or early career scholar? 🌟 Come and join our PG, ECR development day on 2 June w/ Juanita Elias, Nick Caddick, The Conversation UK, @julietdryden.bsky.social & more! 🎉 Sign up today 👉 https://ow.ly/pvxv50Yglmp

Very glad to see this article out in the world. In it, I argue for a critical reading of realism's political history, in terms of exile and how realists historically experienced it. /1

Looks like an interesting contribution to the literature on classical realism @lefteleven.bsky.social 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper! academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... What does “taking back control of borders” feel like when you are the one being bordered?

Germany reintroduced a soft form of military service in 2026. While service remains voluntary, all male 18‑year‑olds must undergo military medical tests, including a testicle check. But what is this sovereign touch about? Spoiler: it offers little medical value but plenty of sociological insight.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... new paper on military service in Germany by my colleague @davidbrenner.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our open-access 'Geopolitical Imaginations and the History of International Thought', co-authored with @lucianashworth.bsky.social, and introducing our special forum with @gsqjournal.bsky.social Geopolitics is dead. Long live geopolitics. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Spatial Conversion? The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and Japanese Imperial Geopolitics by Atsuko Watanabe. Part of a very interesting looking special forum by @antoniofdo.bsky.social and Luke Ashworth. url: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

My new article on Barbara Ward's global thought is out open access. It's part of a fascinating special issue on geographical imaginaries edited by Antonio Ferraz and Luke Ashworth @gsqjournal.bsky.social Global Divisions: The Spatial Imagination of Barbara Ward academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

🏅 Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical IR by a Graduate Student Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller The award goes to ... 🥁 Hermann Derwanz, “The contested origins of the GATT: Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the making of multilateral free trade”

If you are interested in choke points, perhaps check out my 2021 paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #habermas

Jürgen Habermas war ein politischer Denker, der unermüdlich kämpfte: gegen die Irrationalität, für Vernunft und die bedrohten westlichen Werte. Ein Nachruf

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

New article available #OpenAccess: Public intellectual and the prison of theory: John J. Mearsheimer Authored by Haro Karkour #IR #Theory #Mearshheimer #Intellectual #Responsbility ⤵️⤵️⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

Thank you @hist-isanet.bsky.social! 🙏 @harokarkour.bsky.social and my paper on racial justice and the national interest in classical #realism won the Merze Tate Prize for the Best Article in Historical IR @sussexfss.bsky.social Find the article here (OA) 👇 academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

According to the committee, a "valuable contribution" that "deserves to be read not only by historical IR scholars, but also by IR scholars interested in classical realism or race and racism more generally". Congratulations! 🎉 Read the article here: academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

🏅 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations Committee: Justin Rosenberg (Chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras The award goes to ... 🥁 Haro Karkour and Felix Rösch (2024) "Towards IR’s “Fifth Debate”: Racial Justice and the National Interest in Classical Realism"

🎨 Are you experimenting with creative methods to research or teach politics? 📸 Have you used visual, participatory, or arts-based approaches like photography, storytelling, or collaging? 💡 What insights have creative methods helped you uncover that traditional approaches might miss?

🚨 The 2025 Joseph Fletcher Prize Forum on last year's winner "Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations" is now out in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. Have a look at the introduction, individual reviews, and editors' response below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏆 The Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) invites submissions for the 2026 Sussex International Theory Prize. @sussexfss.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk Further information below 👇 Please circulate widely!

🚨 2026 Sussex International Theory Prize 🚨 📚 All monographs that advance the discipline of International Relations theoretically (broadly conceived) or engage with international political thought and have been published in 2025 are eligible. 📌 Deadline: 4th May 2026. Please circulate widely!

🏅 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Jelena Subotic (Chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Richard Ned Lebow and Ludvig Norman for "Weimar’s Long Shadow" (Cambridge University Press)

🏅 The Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal This year's award goes to ... 🥁 Patricia Owens for "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (Princeton)

Towards an orderly and just exit from fossil fuels academic.oup.com/ia/article/d... My latest article in @iajournal.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @sussexsrp.bsky.social @sussexfss.bsky.social @fossilexit.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social

In this episode, Professor David M. McCourt unpacks the foundations of New Constructivism: where it came from, what it demands of researchers, and where it's heading. #constructivism #newconstructivism #irtheory youtu.be/oozY4W8JoSA

Our book "The Brussels Bubble: Inside the European Union in the Digital Age" is soon out with CUP! We give an alternative account of how tech and social media transform power and take the reader on an ethnographic journey to the backstage of multilateralism, from Brexit to Russia's war on Ukraine

My contribution to the literature on emotions in IR--using Watsuji's philosophy to think about emotions as a function of space. Part of a special issue on Emotions in Japan's Foreign Policy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🏆 The Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) invites submissions for the 2026 Sussex International Theory Prize. @sussexfss.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk Further information below 👇 Please circulate widely!

🚨EPIR THESIS PRIZE CALL We are pleased to announce our 2026 Thesis Prize, to be awarded for the best doctoral thesis on emotions in Politics and IR.🏆 The Prize is a collaboration with he Brill Critical Emotion Studies book series. Deadline: 20 March 2026 @mybisa.bsky.social

A great opportunity: the winner of BISA Global Nuclear Order Working Group's first Paper Prize for Early Career Researchers will receive a *guaranteed* peer review at EJIS! 🚀